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NORTHAMPTON — Food items Toni Holbrook remembers buying for $2 a year or so ago have more than doubled in price, meaning a skyrocketing grocery bill for his growing family, which includes a newborn baby.“It makes it hard on us,” Holbrook said of the...
A lot of people don't think twice about buying milk, says Teresa Calderez. "But there are lots of us out here who can't buy a gallon of milk when we need it."
Supplements to the program ended on March 1. Without an off-ramp, people are scrambling to fill the gap.
Over half a million households in Massachusetts are set Thursday to lose the extra federal assistance they’ve been receiving to help pay for groceries since 2020.
More than 630,000 Massachusetts households will be getting around $150 less in SNAP benefits after March 2, as emergency payments come to an end nationwide.